Top Shelf Friday 8/30/24

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Top Shelf Friday 8/30/24 Aug 30, 2024 13:07:55 GMT -5 EdoBosnar, driver1980, and 1 more like this

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Post by MRPs_Missives on Aug 30, 2024 13:07:55 GMT -5

It's Top Shelf Friday time!

So show us a comic (or comic-related or comic-tangential item) that you own that you believe should be on the Top Shelf. It can be because you think the comic is important or valuable, because it's a sentimental favorite or one of your favorite stories, because it's signed and holds great memories for you, just has a really cool cover or strikes your fancy or is just plain cool-whatever the reason show us that comic. Any pic of that comic will do, but bonus points if you can show us the actual copy you own.

This week's pick...

One of my all time favorite Dave Stevens covers...Airboy #5...Holy Jodhpurs!

Let's see your picks this week...

-M

Previous Choices:

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3/1/24 Son of Sinbad
3/8/24 Brave & Bold #35
3/15/24 Piracy #1
3/22/24 Conan the Barbarian #1
3/29/24 Hawk #9
4/5/24 SSWS #126
4/12/24 It Rhymes with Lust
4/19/24 Avengers #162
4/26/24 1st Issue Special 8
5/3/24 Bat Lash #2
5/10/24 Straight Arrow #3
5/17/24 Frazetta ghosted Spirit Section
5/24/24 Green Arrow: Longbow Hunters #1 signed
5/31/24 Daredevil 47
6/7/24 Batman Black and White #4
6/14/24 Daredevil 158
6/21/24 King Kong #1
6/28/24 Hellrider #1
7/5/24 Michael Golden's Doctor Strange Portfolio
7/12/24 Barbarian Comics #1
7/19/24 Phantom Stranger #1 signed
7/26/24 Genius Animated
8/2/24 Flash Gordon: The Ice Monster
8/9/24 Space Science Fiction-God in the Bowl
8/16/24 Flash Comics #1 Millennium Edition
8/23/24 New Gods #7

Last Edit: Aug 30, 2024 13:09:04 GMT -5 by MRPs_Missives

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driver1980 Friendly Neighborhood Regular Posts: 2,665	Top Shelf Friday 8/30/24 Aug 30, 2024 13:17:00 GMT -5 Batflunkie, MRPs_Missives, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by driver1980 on Aug 30, 2024 13:17:00 GMT -5 Here’s mine:

Icctrombone Fortress of Solitude member Posts: 22,454	Top Shelf Friday 8/30/24 Aug 30, 2024 14:01:00 GMT -5 driver1980 likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Icctrombone on Aug 30, 2024 14:01:00 GMT -5 You British blokes always bring surprises to the thread.
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Top Shelf Friday 8/30/24 Aug 30, 2024 14:03:37 GMT -5 Batflunkie, driver1980, and 2 more like this

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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 30, 2024 14:03:37 GMT -5

This week is

It's a fun book detailing all the continuity and production errors in Marvels history till that point.

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{Previous picks}
Avengers #4
Flash ( 1987) 1
Thor #126
Kamandi #10
What if? v1 #3
JLA v1 # 91
Marvels Greatest comics # 31
Master of Kung Fu ( Special Marvel edition) 16
Iron Man # 150
Alpha Flight #12
Superman #227
Marvel Treasury edition #28/ Superman and Spider-Man #2
Badger #1
World’s Finest 211
Flash #201
Groo #1 ( Epic)
Avengers 211
Mr. Miracle 8 ( 1972)
New Teen Titans 13 ( 1980)
Phoenix 1 ( Atlas)
Avengers V1 #12
Superman V1 #176
Fantastic Four 200
Ms. Mystic #1
Iron man # 128
Fantastic Four # 120

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Top Shelf Friday 8/30/24 Aug 30, 2024 14:21:05 GMT -5 Icctrombone, Ricky Jackson, and 2 more like this

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Post by supercat on Aug 30, 2024 14:21:05 GMT -5

This is a 1972 quad-folded poster that was included with a Spider-Man record album released that year. Saw it for sale at my local comic book shop some years ago and it had to come home with me.

Last Edit: Aug 30, 2024 14:44:51 GMT -5 by supercat

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Top Shelf Friday 8/30/24 Aug 30, 2024 14:24:51 GMT -5 driver1980, MRPs_Missives, and 2 more like this

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Post by EdoBosnar on Aug 30, 2024 14:24:51 GMT -5

And the summer of annuals continues with Dr. Strange Annual #1 from 1976:

I never had this one back in the day, rather I only purchased it much later when I heard that it had a really cool story and absolutely lovely art (it does on both counts) by the then newish artist P. Craig Russell (who co-plotted the story together with Marv Wolfman). Normally I don't bother posting additional images in these posts, but that perfectly serviceable and oh-so-'70s cover by Dave Cockrum does little to indicate what you can expect when you open this book up:

(the above image was sourced online, the cover pic is my own book)
This is definitely one of the stand-outs in my current, meager collection of floppies.

My previous picks (strictly confidential):

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01/03/2024: Blackmark (1970s b&w pocketbook)
08/03/2024: Archie’s Superhero Comics Digest #2
15/03/2024: Donald Duck & the Golden Helmet (Whitman, 1978)
22/03/2024: Star Wars #38
28/03/2024: Showcase #100
05/04/2024: Chandler: Red Tide
12/04/2024: Alien, the Illustrated Story
19/04/2024: Amazing Spider-man Annual #10
26/04/2024: Marvel Premiere #32
03/05/2024: Best of DC Blue Ribbon Digest #9
10/05/2024: JLA #200
17/05/2024: Giant-Size Power Man #1
24/05/2024: Batman Annual #8
31/05/2024: Marvel 2-in-1 #51
07/06/2024: Superman #400
14/06/2024: Marvel Team-up #79
21/06/2024: Detective Comics #500
28/06/2024: Avengers #1&1/2
05/07/2024: Batman Special #1 (1984)
12/07/2024: Ismet #1 (Canis Publications, 1981)
19/07/2024: Detective Comics Annual #4
26/07/2024: X-men Annual #3
02/08/2024: Amazing Spider-man Annual #13
08/08/2024: Avengers Annual #9
16/08/2024: Amazing Spider-man Annual #14
23/08/2024: Avengers Annual #13

Last Edit: Aug 30, 2024 14:27:19 GMT -5 by EdoBosnar

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Top Shelf Friday 8/30/24 Aug 30, 2024 14:46:08 GMT -5 MRPs_Missives and supercat like this

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Aug 30, 2024 14:21:05 GMT -5 supercat said:

This is a 1972 quad-folded poster that was included with a Spider-Man record album released that year. Saw it for sale at my local comic book shop some years ago and it had to come home with me.

I had this ! I can still hear the glass breaking when the Kingpin attacks Spidey.

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MRPs_Missives Friendly Neighborhood Regular It's MRP Posts: 1,567	Top Shelf Friday 8/30/24 Aug 30, 2024 14:47:38 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by MRPs_Missives on Aug 30, 2024 14:47:38 GMT -5 EdoBosnar Have you seen/read P. Craig Russell's "director's cut/alternate version/remake" of that annual that he did in the late 90s that Marvel released as a prestige format one-shot? -M
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Top Shelf Friday 8/30/24 Aug 30, 2024 15:07:46 GMT -5 MRPs_Missives likes this

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Aug 30, 2024 14:47:38 GMT -5 MRPs_Missives said:

EdoBosnar Have you seen/read P. Craig Russell's "director's cut/alternate version/remake" of that annual that he did in the late 90s that Marvel released as a prestige format one-shot?

I know of it, but unfortunately have not (yet) read it.

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Top Shelf Friday 8/30/24 Aug 30, 2024 15:55:45 GMT -5 Slam_Bradley, MRPs_Missives, and 1 more like this

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Post by Ricky Jackson on Aug 30, 2024 15:55:45 GMT -5

Picked this up at a cool bookstore in town last year. I'm a big Kurtzman fan but had never acquired this before. It's from Kitchen Sink, 1984. It doesn't include the infamous Archie parody "Goodman Goes Playboy" because of legal reasons, other than a few select panels. Still, it was a great addition to my collection

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Top Shelf Friday 8/30/24 Sept 3, 2024 0:07:59 GMT -5 driver1980, MRPs_Missives, and 2 more like this

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Post by Rags on Sept 3, 2024 0:07:59 GMT -5

Whoever said size doesn't matter never saw the size of this Hardcover collection.

It's 720 pages, 12.25 x 16.5 inches, about 3 inches thick and weighs almost 20 pounds. It doesn't need a top shelf, it needs a top floor.

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